تولد
August 11, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
محل تولد
New York City , New York , USA
Stuart Gordon started his film directing career in 1985. After graduating from Lane Technical High School, Gordon worked as a commercial artist apprentice prior to enrolling at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Unable to get into the film classes, he enrolled in an acting class and ended up majoring in theater. In 1968, he directed a psychedelic adaptation of Peter Pan as a political satire. He was arrested on obscenity charges and Gordon dropped out of the university. He and his wife Carolyn formed the Organic Theater and moved the group to Chicago. The Organic performed their work on and off-Broadway, in Los Angeles, and toured Europe. Among their productions were the world premiere of David Mamet's "Sexual Perversity in Chicago," which launched Mamet's playwriting career, the improv-based comedy "Bleacher Bums," which ran for over ten years in Los Angeles, and the hospital comedy E/R (1984), which became a TV series produced by Norman Lear. He joined with Brian Yuzna and Charles Band's Empire Pictures to create the company's first major hit, Der Re-Animator (1985), based on the story by H.P. Lovecraft, which won a Critics' Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Gordon then helmed another Lovecraft adaptation From Beyond - Aliens des Grauens (1986) and tackled the murderous Dolls (1987) followed by Robotjox - Die Schlacht der Stahlgiganten (1989). Gordon co-created the story for Liebling, ich habe die Kinder geschrumpft (1989) a major hit for Disney. The same year, he directed the remake and more graphic version of Meister des Grauens (1991). Other works include Fortress - Die Festung (1992), and the screenplay for The Dentist (1996) and Body Snatchers - Angriff der Körperfresser (1993), which he co-wrote with long-time writing partner Dennis Paoli. In 2001, Gordon returned to the H.P. Lovecraft territory with Dagon (2001), and in 2003, directed King of the Ants (2003) about a housepainter-turned-hit man, and brought the David Mamet play Edmond (2005) to the screen. He contributed to the horror anthology series Masters of Horror (2005) with the episode Masters of Horror: Dreams in the Witch-House (2005), based on a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. He returned to the series in 2007 with the episode Masters of Horror: The Black Cat (2007), based on Edgar Allan Poe's story. And in 2008, he directed Fear Itself: Eater (2008) for the NBC series Fear Itself (2008). He is also known for frequently murdering his wife, actress Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, in many of his films. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
